Check of vitality
Will the waste-to-energy plant proposed for the northern suburbs (23/12) be accompanied by a carbon seize and storage plant to seize its emissions? Or will or not it’s a case of taking the garbage from the bottom and transferring it to the ambiance? We preserve being instructed how CCS is viable. Here’s a probability to point out it may well contribute to the emissions downside.
Robert Brown, Camberwell
Trying into the longer term
When pricing main infrastructure tasks it appears transport consultants and the state opposition need the federal government of the day to be psychic so their assessments will be 100 per cent correct.
Phil Alexander, Eltham
A Christmas want
I’m hopeful that Jacinta Allan supplies a Christmas present to Victorian chicken life by stopping the capturing of untamed geese for sport.
Malcolm McDonald,
Burwood
Be daring, Albanese
It’s time Anthony Albanese took a stand on tax reform to create a extra equitable society. He must be daring if his authorities is to make a distinction.and presumably retain authorities.
Paul Chivers, Field Hill North
A grim outlook
The billion-dollar blowout in prices for main infrastructure packages, and housing shortages, are one other signal that speedy inhabitants progress is costing us excess of any perceived advantages could make up. Add within the environmental and social prices, and our future is trying more and more grim.
Jennie Epstein, Little River
Celebration lookalikes
Ross Gittins is spot on (Remark, 23/12). Labor’s timidity in implementing a variety of nation-building insurance policies, together with our transition to renewables, is unfortunately the defining characteristic of its governing. It provides weight to the ″each events are simply the identical″ argument.
As setting minister, Tanya Plibersek has continued down the identical path as Sussan Ley, the gross inequities in federal funding between private and non-private faculties stays, whereas Labor will shortly implement the Coalition’s stage 3 tax cuts. Given the social and financial reforms of the respective Whitlam, Hawke and Keating governments, any probability Labor may harness the message from VFL nice John Kennedy, ″Don’t suppose, do.”
Craig Jory , Albury, NSW
Give Palestinians refuge
As Christmas is well known with the start of Jesus and a household discovering refuge in a secure, allow us to replicate deeply on what is occurring in Gaza. It will be a humanitarian present of the spirit of this season if the Australian authorities have been to supply fleeing Palestinians from Gaza refuge. In current historical past we provided refuge to Afghans and Ukrainians fleeing conflict and battle. Are Palestinians lives value lower than others? We may supply Palestinians short-term humanitarian visas, which provide a variety of assist. It’s arduous to be festive when a humanitarian disaster of such proportions is occurring.
Judith Morrison,
Nunawading
The warmth is coming
We’ve been warned that summer time can be extraordinarily sizzling. It seems to be as if summer time may also be extraordinarily quick. December had 4 days over 30 levels. We’d higher brace ourselves for January and February.
Elizabeth Sprigg, Glen Iris
Choose to be grateful
If somebody offers you an op store present voucher, be grateful, they’re a good suggestion and you might do loads worse.
Ian Macdonald, Traralgon
Pushed to the appropriate
″What drives lefties to the appropriate?” (18/12) Maybe the reply lies in a quote attributed to Winston Churchill: “If a person isn’t a socialist by the point he’s 20, he has no coronary heart. If he isn’t a conservative by the point he’s 40, he has no mind.”
Susan Caughey, Glen Iris